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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
A CHAPTER ON LUXURY.
What Franklin Thought About Kt-A
Fourteenth Century Writer.

What franklin Thought About Kt-A
Fourteenth Century Writer.
A century ago Franklin thought it
worth while to discuss the increase Of
luxury in this country. He says he had
not thought "of a remedy for luxury"
and was not sure that in great state it
is capable of remedy" Then he set him
self to show the mftigations and possible
utilities of it, and concluded "that we may
hope the luXry of few merchants on the
coast will not be the ruin of America" l
know not with exactness whether the
delicacies which Franklin styled luxuries,
would not seem stark rudeness and sim
plicity beside what now we behold; but
there is little risk in thinking so. For
such is the increase of desires with pos
sessions that the ease of one age is but
hardship in the next, and the elegances
of one epoch the rusticities of the sue
ceeding
Wherefore, if we ask what luxury is
we shall find many different answers; for
it is said truly that every indulgence be-
yond what is usual is commonly termed
luxury, and &C asses to be luxury when it
turns habitual Thus every historian,
ancient and modern, while he inveigh5
against the luxury of his own time, won
ders at the former historians for charac-
teriZing as luxurieS what he considers as
conveniences merely, or rational improve
ments." For example, writer of the
fourteenth century censures his country
men for having luxury in having chin
reys and wells, table cloths and silver
forks and spoons, even tallOw candles set
in iron or copper candlesticks, and two
fires, zone for the chamber and one for
the Kitchen this writer thinks, smack of
delicate excess. Hollinshed scer's lux
ury i'll using oak for building dwellings
when our houses were builded of will
low" he writes, then we had oaken men;
but now that our houses are made OF oak,
our men are not only become willow, but,
As Persian delicacies creep in among us,
altogether for straw, which is a sore alter
alton"
| have read a story that "a knot of
Highlanders, benighted, wrapped them
selves up in their plaids and lay down in
the snow to sleep. a young gentleman,
making up ball of snow, used it for
pillow His father, striking away the
ball with his foot, What, sir! says he,
are you turning effeminate?'" One
writer defines luxury very precisely, If
not wisely; he says it is habitual excess of
d hurtful character in the pleasures OF
taste, touch and smelling; these senses he
considers the merely corporal senses, with
no such relation to the mind as the eye
and the ear have. But he takes wide
scope for the sense of tou Oh, for he argues
that "the increase of wheel carriages
within century is a pregnant proof OF
the growth of luXuries or Incidence. -
Cor. Globe Democrat.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
Avoid tho Newspaper at breakfast.

Satisfactory breakfasting requires GER
tain conditions of the mind, and among
them perfect equanimity. 1t is hazard
GUS moment and a very little may prove
ruinOus. For this reason it is much better
not to read a letter or even the newspaper,
st breakfast, since there may be some
hing in them which will temporarily
paralyze the organs of deglutitiOn. Your
Jailor may write to you even peremptOrily
mat he would like to have some money,
never taking into account the fact that
yOu have no money to send him, as he
might know, if he would only think, from
he fact that you have never sent him any,
ElOugh he has often asked for it before
You cannot eat comfortably while you are
Misunderstood by your fellow creatures.
You love them all; you want them all to
love you, and especially the tailor
Then, in the newspaper, if you will read
it, the first thing your eye may aight
upon is the sudden death of one of your
dearest friends. No matter what cynics
may have said of you, yet you are really
sorry, especially when you remember that
ne was about your own age, and that you
IRE no longer young. Mullins, marmalade,
oroiled Dloaters or bacOn-these are at
once become vanities. So it is better to
cad your newspaper after breakfast,
when your weakness has been physically
Escruited.-Charles r. COngdon in New
EOrk Star
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
French Apparatus for Purifying Air.

The device consists of two horizontal
concentric cylinders placed in connection
with fan, these being fixed and turning
with the same spindle, and the whole Is
enclosed in casing. The cylinders are
closed at the ends, except for hole per-
hitting the passage of air drawn by fan,
and as the air passes through the concen-
trio space between the drums, it is caused
TO rotate with them by the presence of
feathers running lOngitudinally on the in
side of the outer cylinder. The spindle
which carries the whole arrangement is
hollow, and il thus serves to bring the
water, which is allowed to escape there
from inside the drum by means of fine
holes, which project it in the form of fine
rain against the inside of the inner cyin-
der; this cylinder is also perforated, and
the water again escapes from it and is pro-
jected against the inside of the outer
cylinder, over which it spreads as a thin
coating. The motions of the air and water
are as nearly as possible in opposite direc-
TONS
The water, after it has been sufficiently
exposed to the air, is allowed to escape,
and Is drawn off by means of siphOn. 1t
5 impossible for any air to pass through
he apparatus without being washed, and
IS solid impurities removed by centrifugal
action, and the proportion of water re-
quired may be varied as found necessary
With reference to the condition of the air.
New York Tribune.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27

Long, long age, seq; q ship to sea,
= A fair walte ag-rsy, swift pToWel and
strong,
That started ont upon the glancing green
With lying fiaEs and to the sound q
song.
And on the deck sun burned sailor lad
Waved me a last farewell, long good
bye,
Till the gay pennants Huttered in the west
And slipped from z behind a prin-
rose sky.
To-day my ship sped proudly up the bay,
Tossing her gleeful way TO home AID
me,
Her stout-ridbed sides stuffed with a
costly freight
OF slken scarves and gems and spicery.
But the brown sailor lad who greeted me
Marked not my throbbing heart, nor
wondered why
My cheeks were in flame. He had for
got
Not only me, but all the days gone by.
an. +. W."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27

\ deposit Of genuine meerchum h,
iepn ,snAi on the beach near Yagui"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
esw Use for instantaneous Photography.

r. ew Use for instantaneous Photography.
"An absolute dead heat is an impossi-
Ility," says a turf writer, and he isn't
t.r from wrong For two or more horses
-o make a dead heat means that their
noses must strike an imaginary line pre-
eisely at the same instant. That judges
e frequently compelled to call close
llishes dead heats, is due to the fact that
ne human eye can not with absolute
gsrtainty always catch the exact relative
DpsitiOns of two or more horses whizzing
.F, just at the proper instant. 1t is a
LIbit TO write "he won by a nose" but
hen only a nose measures the distance,
lie eye can not.
Various devices have been suggested
md tried to positively distinguish the
inner in a close finish, but none hare
zen completely successful.
1t has been recently suggested that in
antancOus photography be called in to
title the difficulty. The suggestion is
God, and there is little doubt about its
Ultimate adoption by the enterprising as
locations. Commercial Ga
cite
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
Orchids in the Tropics.

In the tropics the finest orchids are often
foand III the tops Of the highest trees at
such an evelation that they can only be
reached by cutting down the tree, while
few are seen III the lower shades of the
forest, which are siEgularly bare of bloom.
Pearchcd high in air and shaded by the
foliage Of the tree upon which it grows,
the orchjs, makes its home, and the peril
out experiences of collectors in their at
tempt to find some new and rare species
would fill volumes. Instances are not I'M
common of expert collectors having been
sent thousands of miles across the ocean
to some remote part of South Americe,
India or the Malayan archipelago to secure
some orchid of which a specimen or two
may have been brought home.-Chicago
Herald
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
once AGAIN Keadinr rennrson.

Found between the leaves of borrowed
look. What are you reading, dearest?"
3 nd he takes the fair face in his hands
and raises the ripe lips till they touch his
own, bent down to seek them. "a Legend
u Fair Women" she answers when she
let's her breath "Tennyson, Ell? All,
vanity! reading about yourself"
It is year later. They are married
The hour grows late. He is not there
once again Tennyson is on her lap and
she is reading. He enters. Halo! Not
zone to bed yet! What have you got
tlere?" "a Deserted House," she says
,aournfullv. And he asks no more.-Nev.
ork Graphic.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
Blind Men of BROOKLYN.

The blind men of Brooklyn are in the
main self-suppOrting. All are engaged
either in commercial pursuits or else work
at trades. Piano-tuning is their favorite
pursuit. Nearly all are married and have
families. None have married wives SINH
larly affected, and the total number of
blind men i'll the city, which is less than
one hundred, are friendly and aid each
other in time of need. One of them is
worth $780, 900, and a dozen more are worth
half that amount.-BroOklXn Letter
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
Watering Place People.

Persons at most watering places or sum-
mer resorts are divided into two parts
the cortagers and the hotel guests. Usu-
ally the feud is as severe as that between
the Montague and the Capulets. The cot
tagers Will have none Of the hotel people
and the latter endeaver to look down on
the cottagerS Exchange
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
Experiments for Tran,mittI,0

The Rothschilds, it is said, invested 500.
~ francs IN the experiments of NJ. Marcel
Ddprez for transmitting power over long
distances by means of electricity, The
motive force is conveyed by compare
lively feeble current, thereby doing away
ltil the apprehension of dangerous fric-
Ion and resistance. Niagara Falls may
be utilized TO operate engines in New
'rk OF philadelphia by electricity.-Sc
tilic American.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
POrpoise Leather.

Porpoise leather is being used in the
manufacture of shoes, the resem blance to
French kid being very marked. It has a
long, tenacious fiber, and as it will not
crack or tear is very durable and water
proof and makes an excellent leather
CbiCauo News
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
When They Come Up.

The kicking dog when he is down is
quite too hOrrd, and it's just as well to
remember that all ;he dogs who are down
do not stay SO, and that when they come
up they bite deep and usually in tender
spot. in New York Star.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27

For my own part I despise good acct
dents and bad accidents And / despise
those who cling to accidental and temper
AIRY renown and attribute it to their own
Sill. JOAQUIN Miller
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-27
They Have a Third Eyelid.

The cat. horse and birds have third
eyelid, which is used to protect the eye
from too much light. Man has third
eyelld in the corner of the eve, which is
undeveloped.-Det Free Press.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19
CLEVELAND'S CHANCES.

"Savoyard," a correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier-Journdl, is great ad-
mirer of President Cleveland. In re-
cent number of that journal he says:
"Well, Cleveland is going to be our
candidate next year He is good man,
brave man and an honest man. He is
sound on the tariff question, and that is
the great question. He is reported to be
all right on the silver question, having
modified his views. 1t is true that he has
little leaven OF Mugwumpery left in
him, but he has turned out more rascals
than any other man who ever lived. Nc
king or emperor ever discharged as many
civil officials as has Grover Cleveland.
He has been in Office 666 working days,
and counting twenty-four hours a days
work, he has turned out of Office Re-
publican every fourteen minutes. 1t is
true that the job is not finished, but he
has nearly two years to complete it,
though he is hampered by the civil ser.
vice law.
''But it is his views on the tariff that
attracts me, and he will be nominated
and elected next year. He will carry
the solid South and enough States in the
North to insure his election, even if he
should lose New York, but he'll not lose
the Empire State"
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

bathing woo,the tired worker, the invalid
and the pleasure-seeker to the healthful
bosom Of the finest bathing place in the
world. From the foothills north and
east of the city, medicinal springs of hot
and cold water beckon an aiiing world to
their free and exhaustless fountains.
The city is cosmopolitan in its aspects,
yet weighted at present by priestly rule.
Educational, religious and political infiu-
ences are undermining the rule of the
priesthood, which has hitherto
rested as an incubus upon the
material prosperity of the city and Ter
ritorv. There are attractions here for
public-spirited American citizens. For
their opposites, the present supply is
fully equal to the demand. We have
only alluded to some of the advantages
clustering around the walls of the city.
There is ample material for growth now
being reached by the long railway arms
of the city to furnish material for further
! writing
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

THE Provo Enquirer says: "Ameri-
canism is viewed in a somewhat different
light in Utah to what it is outside of
this Territory" Presuming that the
Enquirer spoke for and of the majority,
its assertion is literally true. American
ism elsewhere is manifested by rever-
ence for the Constitution and obedience
to the laws; by enmity to any form of
local government which exacts allegiance
superior to that which every good citizen
should hold to the country in which he
lives, and the flag which represents its
authority; by opposition to union Of
Church and State, and many other things
which illustrate "Americanism" as it is
"viewed" by those who hold the political
power in this Territory. Utah "Ameri-
canism" may be the genuine article. If
it is, that of every other section of the
Union is a fraud.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

Miss FIELD, the other evening, related
as a rather remarkable series of coinci-
dences that Joseph Smith, the founder OF
Mormonism, was a native OF Vermont, as
were also his successor, Brigham Young,
Heber Kimball, his First Counsellor,
and Orson Pratt, the only college gradu-
ate among the old-time Saints. The fair
lecturer humorously remarked that but for
Vermont, there would be no Mormonism.
She mentioned in this connection that it
was in accordance with the eternal fit
ness of things that Edmunds, the author
of the Act of 1882, was also native of
the Green Mountain State. She might
have added, and perhaps more pointedly,
that the pernicious institution founded
by the sons Of that State, was saved
from demolition by one of its Senators in
1887.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19
Omaha.

The only line to take for Des Molnes, Mar.
shalltown, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Dixon, Chi
cago, Milwaukee and all points East. To the
people of Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah.
Idaho, Nevada, oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia, it offers superior advantages not posi-
bic by any other line.
Among few of the numerous points of su.
periority enjoyed by the patrons of this road
between Omaha and Chicago are its two trains
a day of DAY COACHES, which are the finest
that human art and ingenuity can create its
PALACE SLEEPING CARS, which are models
of comfort and elegance; its PARLOR DRAW
ING ROOM CARS, unsurpassed by any; and its
widely celebrated PALATIAL DINING CARS
he equal of which can not be found elsewhere
At Council Bluffs the trains of the Union Pa
cific Ry. connect in Union Depot with those of
the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. In Chicago
the trains of this line make close connection
with those of all Eastern lines.
For Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis, Cincin-
natl, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Toronto,
Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, and ali points in the
East, ask the ticket agent for tickets vi the
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19
THE FUTURE OF SALT LAKE CITY

To build up large and prosperous
city, there must exist natural tributary
resources and helps. A good harbor is
necessary for the growth OF a city on
the seaboArd. A fine water-power
and a tributary fertile country
gives prominence to an inland town.
II natural advantages must be taken in
TO account in connection with the future
growth and prosperity of Salt Lake City,
there is ample data upon which to base a
prediction Of her ultimate greatness as a
commercial center.
During the last fifteen years
OF what may be termed the
infancy of the mining industry in
Utah, the product of mines within the
radius OF from fifty to seventy-fve miles
from this city has exceeded in the aggre-
gate, seventy millions of dollars. The
sales Of this product, as well as the pur-
chase and sale of mining property, give
profitable employment to banks and
banking capital to large extent. The
mining resources of the districts adjoin-
ing this city, from present indications are
we'll nigh exhsustless. Sober, plodding
reason is staggered at the probabilities of
the future. The surface of our suburban
mining districts is hardly scratched. The
smelters in our immediate vicinity will
be more than quadrupled when labor and
capital move in force upon the hitherto
unlocked treasure houses within a BALI
days ride from the city. Immense met
allurgical works similar in scope and
activity to those at Swansea, Wales,
VIII shortly find ample and profitable
employment in this valley. Then, for
We are now speaking of the material re-
sources and attractions at our very doors,
the crude material stored up in the foot
nils within cannon-shot of the city is
sufficient to furnish manufactures of
glass, white porcelain, fire and common
orick, water cement, lime and various
pigments and paints. Quarrles of superior
building rock, granite, lime and sandstone
are close at hand. The broad and fertile
valley stretching for miles north and
south from the city, covered with market
gardens, fruit-ladeR orchards and cult
waited fields, finds home market here,
and show the remarkably rich nature of
our farm land.
But wealth without health is but a
mockery. Salt Lake City can Justly
boast Of the finest climate for all the
year round of any city on this
continent. The blue waves of the
Great Salt Lake glisten in the
sunlight and with muscal cadence defn
the western boundaries of the sanity ant
saline city. Luxurious appliances TO
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19
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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

CHILL is going to initiate the United
States in the the matter of constructing
transcontinental rail ways, and has made
liberal concessions in favor of two lines
that will extend from the Pacific Coast
of Chill to ports on the Atlantic side
within the Argentine Confederation.
The lines will. parallel each other at a
distance of 300 miles apart, and are ex-
pected to be the means of developing
the great resources of the country to be
passed through.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

BARGAINS CITY, AND
INVITE STRANGERS TO CALL ON US AT OUR OFFICE
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

AN event which is likely to occur in the
White House in the near future, will give
the witty writer of the Republican organ
a glorious opportunity to display his
peculiar genius in obscene puns and
broad jokes upon the President, his wife
and the infantile source of the humorous
flow which will greet its advent into this
sinful world, under the auspices of a
Democratic President.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

THE Ogden Herald ironically suggests
Ogden Hiles as the successor to Justice
w. B. Woods upon the bench of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Men of less legal ability, and certainly of
less honesty, have occupied, and are now
occupying, seats upon that bench, placed
there for political services of more than
questionable character to the G. o. p.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

am Prophet the Sen Of Prophet but predict
Dollar Invested Re0 Estate in Salt L0Ee CITY,
Fears return Three Dollars to the iuUeSter
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19

THE organization of Chinese Knights Of
Labor Assemblies in New York. has
caused a sensation among San Francisco
workmen. The "fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man" element seems
to have captured the Knights. The evil
to flow from this suicidal policy of plac
ing 400, 100000 coolies on an equality with
the free labor of America is apparent to
anvone